Creating an AAF or OMF

AAF

The Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is a professional file interchange format designed for the video post production and authoring environment. AAFs can include both audio and video, but the type you’ll want to use is audio only.

Final Cut 7 does not have a native AAF export, but it does have a useful OMF export function. See instructions in the OMF section.

OMF Title: project name

Export As: AAF

Include All Video Tracks: Unchecked

Include All Audio Tracks: Checked

Export Method: Consolidate Media

Handle Length: 3 or 4 seconds worth of frames

Include Rendered Audio Effects: Unchecked

Render All Audio Effects: Unchecked

Convert Audio File Format To: Wave

Audio: Embedded in AAF

While premiere CS6 does have an option for creating an AAF, at the current time those options are not compatible with Pro Tools – our in house audio editing software. Premiere is also able to create OMFs, which work perfectly however, so take a look at the OMF part of this page for instructions.

OMF

Open Media Framework (OMF) or is a platform-independent file format intended for transfer of digital media between different software applications. OMFs can either have embedded audio or linked audio. You’ll want to use the embedded type. You’ll also want to create 3 second handles so that we can further smooth the dialogue and music edits.